Not sure why life has been so hectic this year. Oh wait, I guess it happens all the time to
most everyone…just at different times.
Since my last post a lot has happened.
Most of it is normal everyday stuff and some of it was Extraordinary!
On Aug. 10th
Leslie and I went to Crockett Days at Davy Crockett
State Park in
Lawrenceburg,
TN. She went for one specific reason…to purchase
a goat hide
from a vendor that was not at the show this
year. She was so upset. I did buy a sash
for
my heritage festival attire, to make it more
authentic, and to stash a knife into. We
also
bought some show table coverings. I decided to create a fire set in the front
yard instead
of our truck ring firepit.
This was a cool
setup at Crockett Days, and one I will use as a basis for my fire set. I
have some
ideas but need to find some ¼” steel plate to start.
I woke up at midnight on my birthday to go to work. The floor of the new sewer plant was to be
poured.
The first concrete trucks didn’t
roll in until 2:00am. From that point
they didn’t stop coming until noon. The
finishing crew was great. They worked
like crazy from the first load until everything was done at 10:00pm
that
night. A heavy rain downpour
started shortly after the last of the 53 trucks dumped their loads so they
had to wait till it stopped before they could finish There was 530 yards of concrete poured that
day along
with 100 yards poured the previous Friday for a total of 640 yards of
concrete for the base of the plant.
After it was all poured I clocked out at 1:00pm and headed
home. It’s crazy that when you
need
sleep the most it doesn’t happen well.
Leslie made me a great Lasagna to celebrate my birthday along with
an
Edward’s frozen turtle pie. Then it
happened………
She gave me a present after our wonderful supper. When I opened it I was truly stunned. Inside was a bottle. Not just any bottle, mind you. It was a bottle of ‘The MACALLAN 18”
eighteen year old single malt scotch whisky.
The likes of which I only dreamed about
ever having. The best part was the fact that my wonderful
wife got some awesome people to chip in to help her purchase this for me. I felt like the Man Of The Year, knowing so
many cared.
Thanks Y’all!!!
The next weekend
I finally torched up the wood pile from the tulip tree and all the brush
piles around the
homestead. The blaze was tremendously
hot. Fire Good! Hazzah!
This takes me to the Etheridge flea market . I happened to rescue a cast iron dutch
oven from a
vendor there. A bit of wire brushing and
it was ready to season over the fire.
She turned out as
black as could be and is waiting to fix a hearty meal.
We spent the next
week getting ready for Old Timers Day.
Old Timers Day in Collinwood has been going on for
years. It is a local show in the town
just south of us.
We attended the
festivities last year to see what it was like.
Lots of good folks having a fun time was what
we encountered. This was the third outdoor show for us in
2013 and the third to get rained out.
Luckily the
rain did not come until near the end. It was a VERY Hot day in Collinwood. We had a good time and
talked to a lot of
great people. The music was good
too. Leslie was lucky enough to win a 20”
bike from
the Collinwood Dixie Youth Baseball group to make the day a success
for sure.
So much time has been spent trying to get shows lined up and
prepare for those shows. The lineup as
of
now is:
Aug. 31- Old
Timers Day in Collinwood, TN(done)
Oct. 5- Waynesboro
Harvest Festival in Waynesboro,TN
Oct. 12- Ames
Plantation Heritage Festival in Bolivar, TN
Oct. 26- Armstrong
Pie Festival in Linden, TN
Nov. 2-3 Williamson
County Holiday
Arts & Crafts in Franklin,
TN
The biggest change is that we are not doing the Franklin Pumpkinfest
show this year. We really hadn’t done
that well at the show the last two years.
It is a great show in that it is all
artists that have made their wares.
Instead we have signed up to do the Williamson Co. Holiday show in Franklin, TN. We’ve heard good
things about it and hope to
sell out of everything on those days…HaHa!
Next up for me is
getting some of my stuff put on Etsy. It's about time
to really use the internet to sell my products.
First things to go on are some of my
necklaces. We’ll see how it works out
with an update later.
That's it for now. I think. Anyway Leslie and I have been weathering the Tennessee summer rather well.
October sure looks busy for us but this too shall pass. Looking forward to a successful show season and
hunting/trapping season. Sorry about the totally goofy text justification in this post, it's from my computer. I
will have lots to write about soon so stay tuned for the next installment. Till then...y'all have a great one.
